Abstract
The last couple of chapters have shown how to produce wire-frame and polygon-fill graphics with software written in C++ — for the generation of complex images which must be updated in real-time it may be necessary to replace some of the C++ code with an assembly language equivalent. The assembly language instruction set is closely connected to the actual machine code executed by the computer — it is therefore possible to approach the optimum utilization of processor resources by rewriting selected sections of a graphics application in assembly language. The main topics covered by this chapter include:
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microcomputer architecture
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data and address registers
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the 80x86 assembly language instruction set
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operation of the program stack
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working with inline assembly code
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modifying the program message loop
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Welmsley, M. (1998). Assembly Language Programming. In: Graphics Programming in C++. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0905-1_10
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